Wee Hughie

Hugh Campbell is first introduced at the carnival with his girlfriend, Robin. After admitting their love for each other, she is accidentally killed during a super-hero brawl between A-Train (a member of the premier superhero team the Seven) and another evil doer. Hughie, holding his dead girlfriend's arms, goes into emotional shock because of the entire experience. ( The Boys #1)

Butcher, leader of the Boys, puts his old team back together and tries to recruit Hughie for the team and explains to him the necessity to keep "superheroes" in check. ( #2).

Butcher flies the team out to New York to have them gather information on the Sexually deviant teenage group the Teenage Kix. ( #4)

Whilst on surveilance duty the Butcher injects Hughie with a formula which grants super-human abilities. This angers Hughie and he leaves. He later returns to the Boys and together they fight Teenage Kix after someone tipped them off about who was blackmailing them. During the fight, Hughie kills the Teenage Kix member Blarney Cock because he underestimates his powers and punched a hole in his stomach. After Blarney Cock's death, a Hamster wrapped in tape finds his way out of Cock's underwear. Hughie took the Hamster as a pet and a reminder of something else that was wronged by superheroes. ( #6)

Some time later Hughie has to deal with a resurrected Blarney Cock (in the Boys universe people injected with the superhuman formula occasionally come back to life, but are brain-dead and unable to return to a normal life and are often hidden away and cared for by their former team-mates) who finds his way to Hughie's appartment. Hughie is at first apologetic, but when Blarney soils himself and appears to only want the hamster back Hughie (once more underestimating his own strength) breaks the zombie's neck, killing him once more. He disposes of the body, much to the Butcher's amusement (he had been observing the whole incident) after he makes a mess of it. As a consequence of this, Hughie is relieved of the some of the guilt he carried after killing Blarney Cock the first time around.

Despite knowing the necessity of the Boys' actions, Hughie struggles with the violence and brutality they regularly engage in.

Not aware of her superhero identity, Hughie started a romantic relationship with Starlight. Both are unaware of the other's secret life which will undoubtedly cause problems later. Butcher recently learned of Starlight's involvement with Hughie, this made him question whether or not Hughie might really be an inside man for Vought. He send him too monitor a seemingly harmless group known as Super Duper, which led to Hughie being seriously injured in a confrontation with Malchemical, a new addition to the group's line-up, when Hughie tried to protect the other Super Dupers from him.

Hughie obtained his revenge on A-Train for his girlfriend's death when Butcher presented a bound and beaten A-Train to him on the roof of the Flatiron Building. Hughie tried to explain to A-Train how much pain the death of his girlfriend had caused him, but A-Train, terrified, only begged and pleaded for his life. Finally, in a fit of pique, Hughie kicked A-Train's head off.

TRIVIA

The physical appearance of Wee Hughie is based on British actor Simon Pegg, star of British sitcom Spaced and the films Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and the more recent Star Trek reboot where he appeared as Scotty.

Wee Hughie was the replacement for "Malory", the last member of "The Boys" who simply quit when Butcher inadvertently got his grandchildren killed.